http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjE1MjcsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=
"The new Folding@Home console beta client will be released on October 2nd and the GUI GPU client with real time visualization soon afterwards."
"This advance utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers"
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html
Now that Folding@Home has support for the video GPU, when is BOINC going to support GPU's?
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Folding@Home will be using the GPU core.
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This has already been discussed over at SETI. You may be interested in This thread.
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Ya, but now they're not just talking about it, they're doing it.
Of course we'll have to see if in reality it will benefit, and by how much.
Hopefully, if there are benefits, the writers of BOINC will think about using the GPU too.
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BOINC has nothing to do with crunching. The projects application does the crunching of WUs. So you need to ask the project developers.
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My mistake, sorry.
Then hopefully, if it is successful, other DC projects will think about using the GPU too.
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if so they may see too us who is using ATI competitor NVidia.
I just wonder why noone has
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I just wonder why noone has started producing specialized crunching processors
would be fun to see the SETI@HOME-PU, E@H-PU and the list of all those DCPUs could go on and on :)
by DCPU here i mean Distributed Computing Processing Unit
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That would be pretty neat.
Here something that I just read about that is built into Vista. It's called ReadyBoost, which allows a USB flash disk, to be used as swap space, as opposed to the hard disk. This runs at 480Mbps as opposed to the 100, 133, 150, etc. of your hard disk. If set up properly, I'd like to see if there is any improvements cruching DC clients.
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But most applications are CPU bound. I don't think they need much swap space.
Tullio
http://www.theinquirer.net/de
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34783
Here's more info.
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Heyho :)
at first, USB 2.0 is only 480 MBIT/s and not MBYTE/s, so you only have max. 60 MByte/s over USB 2.0.
E-IDE and SATA/II have 100,133,150,300 MBYTE/s, so this interfaces are much faster than USB 2.0.
Furthermore ist also important how fast the data storage really is.
Normal HDDs make about 50-60 MByte/s, that fastest USB Sticks make max. 20 Mbyte/s.
So it wouldn't be a good idee to swap to USB 2.0
greets